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In what is being described by some Redditors as "winning the Amazon lottery," one user has seen their $44.99 RAM order turned into a $949.99 8TB SSD. When bringing the dilemma to r/PCMasterRace, user Inside-Cloud6243 was met with endless calls to keep the SSD, or sell it to buy better RAM than they initially planned to buy. But what would you do? While we can see from the Amazon order that this Redditor didn't exactly order the best gaming RAM, the last thing they would have expected is for a Corsair MP600 Pro XT to arrive, worth 21x their original order. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Save $400 on this wooden water-cooled mini gaming PC from Corsair Corsair's new M55 gaming mouse has an astoundingly low price DDR5 prices are expected to increase, so buy your gaming RAM now View the full article

Cruise to a top placement on the first and second day of the Tycoon Beach Racers main event through Monopoly GO Breeze Bash rewards, featuring over 1,500 flags. The first Tycoon Beach Racers race begins on Sept. 6 with the launch of Monopoly GO Breeze Bash, a 24-hour Leaderboard event. Rewards from the event are spread across 30 milestones with all of the early rewards featuring over 100 flags. The Breeze Bash event will run simultaneously with Making a Splash, which features Pickup tokens to earn milestone points. Use clumping of those tokens near Railroads to maximize points earned for Breeze Bash rewards in Monopoly GO. And don’t sleep on the Sept. 6 Mega Heist flash event that starts at 2pm CT to boost rewards as well. View the full article

A new report clarifies whether the Concord episode will be retained in Amazon's upcoming Secret Level anthology series. After a dreadfully unpopular two-week run, PlayStation announced that it would be taking Concord offline to "explore options" that could work better for the live-service hero shooter's general standing in the market. View the full article

A new Genshin Impact ***** has revealed that fans will be able to play as Mavuika during the Version 5.1 Archon Quest. While it's been a little over a week since the Natlan region was released in Version 5.0, several Genshin Impact leaks have already surfaced within the community hinting about what players can expect in the game's next update. View the full article

Three different Mysticism spells can be unlocked in ****** Myth: Wukong to give you new magic to grow stronger along your journey. This magic can alter the physical world, allowing you to freeze enemies in place, conjure *****, and even enhance your physical abilities. With each of these spells, you can take on greater challenges as you progress through the game's story. View the full article

A new weather effect on one of PUBG’s maps that was added in a recent update went under the radar, but players seem to really be loving it. A creepy fog effect has been added to Vikendi, as spotted by one Reddit user, who said it looked like “Vaseline smeared all over my screen.” I don’t know much about lubricants, but it seems as though most players in the replies are having a blast with the spooky, filter-like viewing experience. The discussion of the game’s dynamic weather feature was sparked in the Sept. 5 Reddit thread, and players chimed in with mostly positive responses to how each game can feel completely different, with the game’s weather running the gamut. View the full article

Who are the EA FC 25 Icons? EA has been busy adding to the star-studded list of soccer royalty that you'll be praying to pull in Ultimate Team this year. Featuring phenoms of the men's and ******** sides of the beautiful game, there are some immaculate ballers to be acquired this season. As the EA FC 25 release date approaches, EA has revealed the eight new Icons that have cemented their spot in the sports game, following last year's impressive list of inductees which featured the likes of Bobby Charlton and Mia Hamm. To find out who the EA FC 25 Icons are and how they've made their mark, read on. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Is EA FC 25 coming to Game Pass? EA FC 25 release date, cover, editions, trailers, and more FC 25 adds eight new Icons to its already massive lineup View the full article

Grumble is the final boss of the Doors Floor 2 update, and solving the puzzle before you actually face it can be challenging. You can get lost searching for terminals or get ******* before you reach them, and you’ll have to memorize the sticky notes along the way. How to defeat Grumble in Roblox Doors Floor 2 Don’t ignore the sticky notes. Screenshot by Dot Esports You’ll meet Grumble in Room 150 of the Mines in Doors, where you’ll be thrown from the minecart and will have to run for your life until you get to the safe room before the blast door closes. To move on to Room 151 and escape Grumble, you’ll have to activate the terminal and insert the code in several Anchors. The number of Anchors will depend on the number of players. View the full article

Cooperative survival horror game Lethal Company has received a new update for early September, and while it's not particularly large, it includes a new item that should make the game's very limited on-person inventory space a lot easier to manage. Since continued survival in Lethal Company is entirely dependent on a player or team's ability to gather scrap, managing carrying capacity is paramount, and the new Tactical Belt Bag will help out greatly in that respect. View the full article

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****** Myth: Wukong has a hidden fourth stance called the Wukong Stance that is incredibly powerful but has a long trek to acquire. The action RPG diverges from the norm by only including one ******* for players to use. However, this is supplemented by staff upgrades/forms and Staff Stances that shake up gameplay. The former is unlocked by beating bosses to change the staff's appearance while giving some bonus abilities and stats. View the full article

Gravastar is a relatively new company in the gaming peripherals space, with its first mice, the Mercury M1 and M2 arriving earlier this year. Now the company is back with a new keyboard, the Gravastar Mercury K1, which continues the company's unique alien-esque approach to peripheral design, and includes a very bizarre height adjustment system. This new contender for our best gaming keyboard guide comes in three different versions - the K1 Pro, K1, and K1 Lite. All these Gravastar boards sport the same overall organic design, which is striking enough, but the K1 Pro goes a step further with legs that sprout from the rear corners of the keyboard. Read the rest of the story... View the full article

As we near two months since the launch of Once Human, the sci-fi survival game has done a tremendous job maintaining its momentum. While 2024 has been packed with genre rivals like Palworld and Soulmask, and the continued updates from Valheim, Rust, and Ark, Starry Studio's free Steam game ******** among the most-played hits on the Valve platform, consistently reaching more than 100,000 concurrent users daily. As its second season gets underway, however, the developer addresses some key pain points raised by the community. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best new MMOs worth playing in 2024 Once Human PvP explained Once Human codes and how to redeem View the full article

2024's Roblox Developer's Conference has arrived and has given fans a glimpse into the future of the platform that is setting its sights on 1 billion daily active users. Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki shared that the team hopes to achieve that goal by focusing on helping creators build their businesses, scaling creation and access, and bringing people together. Roblox still has a ways to go to reach that one billion daily active user goal, as the game saw a still impressive 79.5 million daily active users as of June 2024, but Baszucki believes this mindset and the plans they have in place will transform the gaming landscape to a place where "10% of all gaming revenue will flow through the Roblox ecosystem and be distributed with our community of creators." Some of these plans include a new Party system that lets friends play their favorite together with ease, the growth of a "Roblox-created 3D foundational model to power generative AI creation on the platform," and new commerce opportunities to help creators earn more and even sell their physical merchandise to more fans. Roblox is introducing a new Party system Roblox's new Party system is set to launch in October and aims to get friends playing and communicating together with as few barriers as possible. Anyone above nine years old will be able to utilize this feature and Party will launch first with the ability for players to text each other in the app. Later in the year, voice will be added for those who are phone-verified users aged 13 or older. Party will work both inside and outside of Roblox and, early next year, the Roblox team will add an API that will let developers improve the Party system by letting them teleport players to the same starting point, put them in a private lobby, and even pre-pair them onto the same team. Another way Roblox is attempting to bring people together is by rebranding its Roblox Groups to Roblox Communities. These spaces will be a place for players to participate in Forums to share feedback on their experiences, talk about their favorite games and moments, and report issues that arise. Music is one more area Roblox is looking to expand into, as the team will be making new ways for players to discover music and connect with artists beyond just listening to the songs included in a Roblo experience. Such platform features as What's Playing and Music Charts will be added and an integration with the music distribution service DistroKid will be the simple way artists can upload their work or find music to include in their projects. Creator Affiliate Program and transparent algorithms Roblox has announced a Creator Affiliate Program that will reward developers who can bring new users into the platform. Creators will be able to share a unique link that will earn them money when someone uses it to sign up and purchase Robux. Creators will earn a share of the revenue the person "generates from their Robux purchases" for the first six months. Applications are open now for the first version of this program — which will enable creators to earn up to 50% on qualified purchases — and the team anticipates all eligible creators will be able to utilize the program by the middle of 2025. Creators will also be happy to know the Roblox team is improving the way users find their content. Today's Picks on the homepage and on Marketplace will highlight even more experiences, and impressions on sponsored ads on Roblox's homepage have increased from 1.6% in March 2024 to over 8% in June 2024. Furthermore, the team promises "open and transparent insight into search and discovery on Roblox." This means creators will have a better idea on what the team values and how they can craft their experiences to become as visible as possible. AI and scaling Roblox to all devices The team at Roblox wants the platform to run its best on as many devices as possible, and a new technology called Harmony aims to optimize the game to achieve this goal. Harmony includes client-side balancing and optimizations of CPU, GPU, and RAM. In the future, this will extend into Roblox-supported architecture for "server authority for competitive games." AI, which has already been a part of Roblox for some time with Assistant, Texture Generator, and Avatar Auto Setup, will be taken to the next level with a new incubation project that was launched just a few months ago. This 3D foundational model will be open source and multimodal and will "power 3D generation through text, video, and 3D prompts." The goal is to let devs create their dreams in whichever style they prefer - be it photorealistic, anime, low-poly, or steampunk - and generate objects and scenes to match. Devs will even be able to have AI create an entire world and give the AI feedback to finetune it to their liking. Additionally, Roblox will soon make it possible for devs to host a high-performance, 100-player open world, sports, or battle royale-type game and have it run on 2GB RAM devices. Helping Creators Build Their Businesses Alongside helping devs create newer and even more ambitious projects, the Roblox team is working on helping these same creators earn more money for their hard work. In the "coming months," there will be a new option to optimize in-experience pricing. This new tool will run price tests and recommend the "most attractive pricing strategy." There will also be testing done for regional pricing recomendations. Early next year, creators will be able to sell physical merchandise from within their experiences, and the team at Roblox will be parterning with various e-commerce platforms like Shopify to make this a smooth and easy process. Lastly, devs will be able to price their paid access experiences in real currency value on desktop and earn an even higher revenue share than before. This means experiences selling at $9.99, $29.99, and $49.99 will get a 50%, 60%, and 70% revenue share, respectively. This change will roll out later this year for desktop and other devices will hopefully get this feature in the future. Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on TikTok. View the full article

There’s always something to do around the village in Disney Dreamlight Valley, but sometimes it can be tricky to figure out how to get certain tasks started. This is the case for the festive End of Summer event which is a tough one to begin if you’re unaware of it. You certainly don’t want to miss out on the special rewards you can earn by participating in this event since they’re all exclusive and will likely never be available again. Here’s how to start the End of Summer event in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

There are many different items to discover in Escape from Tarkov that can help you in adventures and raids, including a new Streamer Case that’ll give you some extra storage for your gear after a successful outing in the wild. This Streamer Case is an exclusive, limited-time item that can only be accessed in one way, and it’ll only be available for those who frequent broadcasts on the popular streaming service, Twitch. It’s a bonus reward to finish off the summer, but it does come at a cost for those who were hoping for some free loot. View the full article

Illustration: The Verge As Roblox marches toward its ultimate goal of 1 billion users, the company is finding new ways to share revenue with the developers who have made millions of games on the platform. During the company’s annual developers conference in San Francisco on Friday, CEO David Baszucki announced that creators of these games, which Roblox calls experiences, will be able to keep between 50 and 70 percent of revenue from their paid titles when they’re purchased in real currency on desktop computers. That’s significantly more than the roughly 30 percent revenue split Roblox gives developers for purchases made with its native Robux currency inside freemium experiences. The move could help incentivize the creation of more premium games as Roblox looks... Continue reading… View the full article

After watching the announcement trailer for Whispers of the Eyeless, I have one request: please, do not have that voiceover in the full game. It is hammier than a hamster eating a ham sandwich in Hamburg during a performance of Hamlet. It starts with "The Whispers [of the Eyeless] call to me!!!" and does not improve from there. Beyond that, colour me fairly enthused. Read more View the full article

The End of Summer event in Disney Dreamlight Valley offers a variety of exclusive rewards for completing special tasks. You need a few key items to navigate through them, and Pink Marshmallows are one of the most important ones. This event comes with no guidance or instructions, so it can be tricky to figure out how to find and male everything you need in this event. Pink Marshmallows are easy enough to obtain once you know where to find them, so here’s how to get Pink Marshmallows in Disney Dreamlight Valley. View the full article

Kay's Speeder in Star Wars: Outlaws allows her to quickly travel anywhere she needs to go, and while the base Speeder is fine, there are a few upgrades that will make your bike truly stand out. Kay is a hacker, lockpick, and general scoundrel, and nothing is quite as useful as the ability to get out of sticky situations quickly. To keep your Speeder performing its best, be sure to pick up the best upgrades you can find. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

In our latest reminder that licensed music is a headache that most videogames could do without, Remedy has announced that the David Bowie classic Space Oddity will be removed from Alan Wake next week... Read more.View the full article

Baldur's Gate 3 has introduced a way for PC players to stay on Update 6. This option, which is being offered as part of a newly launched alternative development branch of Baldur's Gate 3, can also be used to revert Update 7 by those who have already installed it. View the full article

With newcomers such as Arena Breakout Infinite, Level Zero Extraction, and Delta Forc all shaping up as challengers to the mighty Escape From Tarkov, the tactical FPS space feels rather busy. Yet with a million copies sold and a greater focus on a persistent, PvE-led experience, Gray Zone Warfare is here to stay. Fresh off its early success, the team is preparing to deliver a game-changing overhaul with the introduction of a day/night cycle. At Gamescom, I sat down with Madfinger PR director Rick Lagnese and community manager Corey 'TheDevilDogGamer' Smith for an extended look at the new update. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Gray Zone Warfare just made landing and extracting much easier Gray Zone Warfare CEO says tactical FPS made a "big mistake" New Tarkov and Arma rival nears a million sales despite mixed reviews View the full article

A Nintendo Switch controller probably isn't the first option that springs to mind when considering a gamepad for a PC, and Nintendo hasn't exactly been known for its PC support in the past either. However, technically the Nintendo Switch Pro controller can be made to work on a PC, just with a few caveats. The result isn't the best PC controller you can buy right now, of course, but this pad is well-built and comfortable to hold, and you can get it working in a lot of PC games. If you own both a PC and a Switch, and want just one controller to use for both devices, then it does the job. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This PC gamer ordered 16GB of RAM, but Amazon sent a $949 SSD instead This new gaming keyboard looks like it could walk off your desk This new Steam Deck update fixes the big issues from the last one View the full article

I know what you’re thinking. The word “Dragon” implies a certain purple dragon when trying to get this Astro **** trophy, and I can picture you hitting Spyro and trying to get him to follow you, but you’re barking up the wrong tree. Some of Astro ****‘s trophies have driven me up the wall. The odd few are worded so ambiguously you’re left wondering where you’re going wrong. Again, you’d think Spyro is sure to be involved in this trophy, and if you’ve found Sam Bridges from ****** Stranding, he’s also a tough guy carrying a ton of stuff. View the full article